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While the entry queue didn’t turn into a Black Friday-level stampede from the first round of well-heeled guests, it was still a wild day at the fair, full of the expected selection of blue-chip contemporary art (including the Hirst/Gagosian reunion), but also a live donkey, mimes, and performances, not to mention a futuristic Solylent meal-replacement drink from Sean Raspet at Berlin’s Gallery Société.

Maurizio Cattelan, Warning! Enter at your own risk. Do not touch, do not feed, no smoking, no photographs, no dogs, thank you. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

Leonardo DiCaprio talks to Tony Shafrazi at the Frieze New York VIP Lounge. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

Celebrity chef Bobby Flay was also spotted roaming the aisles, in the hopes of starting an art collection. “I don’t know much about art at all,” Flay admitted to artnet News, “so I’m here on an educational expedition.”

More seasoned art experts were also on hand, of course, from dealer Jeffrey Deitch and Studio Museum in Harlem director Thelma Golden. For art fair veterans, the international circuit can admittedly get repetitive, but that doesn’t mean new discoveries aren’t just around the corner.

Chuck Close at Acquavella at Frieze New York. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

“The stuff I like best is stuff I already know,” artist Chuck Close told artnet News. “I’m just getting started though, and I’m an eternal optimist.”

See more of artnet News’s photos of Frieze New York below.

Work by John M. Armleder at Almine Rech Gallery. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

Work by Angelo Plessas and Jannis Varelas at the Breeder. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

Celebrity chef Bobby Flay in front of Nick Cave’s To Be Titled at Jack Shainman Gallery at Frieze New York. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

Idris Khan, Overture (2015) at Sean Kelly. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

Work by Josh Brand at Misako & Rosen. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

The joint booth for Esther Schipper and Johnen Galerie. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

Ryan Gander, Group Portrait – Four lads from Chester and one lad from Swinton drinking Espresso Martini’s, Gorilla, Manchester, 2nd of July 2014, following the opening of the exhibition Make every show like it’s your last, Manchester Art Gallery (2016) at Lisson Gallery. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

Heather Phillipson, 100% Other Fibers. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

Yayoi Kusama, The Moment of Regeneration at Victoria Miro. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

Eduardo Navarro, Instructions from the Sky. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.

Ryan Gander, Group Portrait – Four lads from Chester and one lad from Swinton drinking Espresso Martini’s, Gorilla, Manchester, 2nd of July 2014, following the opening of the exhibition Make every show like it’s your last, Manchester Art Gallery (2016), detail, at Lisson Gallery. Courtesy of Sarah Cascone.